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From: P-Pomes@uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Backups - which method do you prefer?
Date: 11 Jul 1995 15:54:14 -0500
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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noah@rain.org (Matt Noah) writes:

>I am starting an ISP and want to backup a server which will almost
>always be "on-line".  What backup method do you use?  Do you take
>the server off-line when doing backups?

While not in the list of methods, IBM's ADSM backup package is in heavy
use at UIUC on a wide mix of platforms.  It works on just about everything
we have and the user interface is one of the best I've seen.  My only
complaint is that wildcards aren't well supported in the command line
client.

/pbp
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